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2012

Illustration “Viaggiare” by Marco Bellotto

With this splendid personalised illustration Viaggiare (that means travelling in Italian) created by the talented young professional and friend Marco Bellotto (pop over to his page to see other works!!!) I am going to summarise my blog experience about 2012.

As you can read from my “About” introduction, my goal was to travel, take pictures, experience, breathe and write about it. I was a bit frustrated back then, willing to express myself but not able to do it at work, where I used to spent most of my days. Maybe it was because of my huge imagination and an enough-under-control hyperactive attitude, as you can read here. Nothing better than push my creativity further with this blog. It was really the best thing to do.

What came out of it, was a calendar diary of my travelling around Europe, one every month.

What I learn from “Travelling 2012” is that there are infinite ways to travel and that this world never stops to amaze, even when you go to the same place several times: it’s all a matter of eye. And of good dispositions.

It took me more than 20 years to be on board with something like that, but in May, cuddled by a warm Italian sun, I had a family holiday. Imagine one huge family on a lovely empty beach. And a lonely, pale Berliner bear who had the chance to spend some quality time with extraordinary people. https://valanzo.com/2012/08/04/may-bibione/.

July and some massive changes arrived. Time to stay home and enjoy what was comforting for me or as Damon Albarn might sing “I feed the pigeons I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous well-being” (Parklife by Blur) https://valanzo.com/2012/09/16/july-parklife/.